Democratic Collapse In Massachusetts: Corruption In DC

My mother in law is in the hospital today and I spent the last two days with all sorts of problems such as driving to the hospital at 1am on Tuesday.  The fine care she is getting reminds me that public health systems run by the government are wonderful and the failure to get this for everyone is why Obama ‘s failure to demand this for everyone is now destroying the Democratic Party.  Instead of letting Congress fail due to not enough progressives and then going out in two years fighting for a better Congress, he sold out.

The backlash is but beginning.  When FDR sailed into office on the winds of an economic collapse caused by the usual credit bubbles so dear to Republicans, he aggressively tried one thing after another to make things work….not for Wall Street but for the working stiffs of America.  As the rich howled in rage at him, he did things that made the poor praise him to the heavens.  The entire time he was alive, the greater masses of our great nation trooped to the polls and voted for him.  In the deep south, no blacks could vote for him, yet he won all elections he ran in.  I knew a number of black citizens from the deep south when I lived in Brooklyn.

All of them had pictures of three presidents in their homes: Lincoln, FDR and Kennedy.  I knew one of FDR’s nurses from when he lived in NY and was governor of this state.  Her title in her own Flatbush community was ‘FDR’s Nurse’ and she was deferred to in her church and was viewed by the older blacks as an icon of hope.  She was extremely old when I met her and she loved telling stories of her years of service to FDR.  ’I was human to him so he treated me like a human,’ she said.

Lincoln, FDR and Kennedy were not perfect people.  They were all very controversial and confrontational.  And they all tried their best to change things.  Sometimes a status quo is impossible to maintain and change must happen.  The entire left half of the country was sickened by the stinking mess created by mostly the GOP leadership and angry about the Democratic Congressional ability to ‘show spine’ so the story we all heard was, ‘Vote in a Democratic supermajority and we will change things.’

Well, the ‘change’ turned out to be a morass mess of corruption which prevented even the tiniest of changes.  Instead of a tsunami of proposals which would possibly be stopped by the Republicans, there was an embrace of nearly EVERYTHING Bush and the GOP did.  Of most signal importance, I would guess that about 100% of the people who voted for Obama wanted us to stop expanding our wars.  Instead, Obama decided, after a flim-flam pretense of being uncertain, to greatly expand our wars which now are embroiling Pakistan while Iraq falls through our fingers and Afghanistan peasants successfully make hash of our attempts to suppress their native religion and social systems.

We had no real choice in the last election since all candidates embraced the military/industrialized concept of American policy and both parties embrace ‘free trade’ and both parties are disgustingly reckless with social spending that brings little social benefits.  This is the key: successful nations that are beating us in world trade all have or are building social systems that cover everyone’s medical needs plus defends the borders from aliens of all types including alien manufacturing products that compete with home products.

Many, many nations embraced the US ‘free trade’ model because it benefited them.  But as the euro rises in value, Europe is replacing US as the destination of all trade and this is bankrupting Europe, which is a loose confederation, while the US is already heading to bankruptcy.  The recent election in Massachusetts is just a harbinger of what is to come: the total collapse of the Democratic party.  And thus, once the last illusion that progressives can influence corrupt politicians will force everyone to exit this sick party and be done with it and form a Reform Party.

The Tea Party could have been this but it was quickly taken over by Fox TV and is now the Reactionary Party headed by Palin who is at least an ideologue rather than simply corrupt.  This Reactionary Party will be for all the ‘moralists’ who think the crisis is due to sex and other things. I pray these poor people figure out that gambling is destroying our nation, not sex.  But they won’t see this because they are shoved aside by corrupt politicians who cynically throw bones to them such as outlawing gays.

But the Reform Party doesn’t want bones.  We want MEAT.  That is, a change in the corruption in DC.  The military/industrial complex is in cahoots with international bankers to run up our bills to infinity while fattening themselves.  The ‘privatization’ program whereby corporations with headquarters on Elizabeth’s many pirate islands can profit from wars and bribe politicians to vote endless sums for these many wars means both parties are party to looting the Treasury.  There are more ‘private employees’ in Afghanistan and Iraq than US troops and they are doing a slam bang crappy job of it, indeed, the Blackwater/Xe corporation is actively making it impossible to run wars there.

Instead of arresting Mr. Prince  he is protected.  Instead of stopping the flood of money to the Pentagon, once again, Obama asks for another $33 billion while not bailing out the states.  The GOP won’t stop a thing that is wrong and the half of America who loves the red ink status quo will be happy to continue this.  While the Reform Party people sputter with rage as things go out of control…and even there, we are very, very divided: many Tea Party people profess to hate red ink and I know the Ron Paul group is very much against this but aside from the Ron Paul people, most Tea Party people are happy to have the government spend money on them and the military.

And we cannot do this forever.  The Wall of Reality looms before us and this international collapse which has its roots in US red ink spending and red ink trade is the cause of the collapse and we must fix this now or suffer the obvious consequences: fulfilling the Chinese 50 Year Plan and Bin Laden’s strategy: bankrupt the US.

This election was a wake up call for the slumbering dinosaurs in DC.  I hope they figure this out before it is too late.  But then, it probably is too late.  So I await with joy the  birth of the Reform Party and hope we can reach out, left and right, to do this thing: clean up DC and shut down K Street and remove AIPAC and all other foreign entities which now control our Congress.

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